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CSGO SMG Skins- The History of Skins in CS:GO January 28, 2018 10:17 PM

By : jelly

CSGO SMG Skins - From the moment the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta test has been launched, it became clear that there will be a new feature in the game: skins that are available for weapon and clothes. These skins change character’s appearance, although his characteristics remain the same. So the cosmetic changes do not affect the gameplay balance. In 2012, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive release the the first cases with skins of weapon and keys to them have appeared. Key cost, at that time, was about $2.50. The skin, as well as now, dropped out randomly from the list of skins which have been assigned to a certain case. Since then, the era of exchange of game items has begun.
The Development of Skins-Related Services

As trading services have not been developed and there is no ability to sell skins via the Steam, skins had no estimated cost in a money equivalent. They were estimated by keys to cases. For example, the skin of AK-47 could be changed for 4 keys, and it is $10. There were skins that costed one key only. Everything depended on popularity and a rarity of a skin among CS:GO community.
With the development of Steam Community Market in 2013 the situation has totally changed and the era of trade in CS:GO skin market has began. The cost of items was already determined by players. There was a live competition and the active market of skins of CS:GO.

Fan Community Art Engaged

In 2013 Steam starts a unique project “CS:GO Workshop: Create the skin”. The application developed by Steam allows players and everyone to independently create weapon skins for the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. In those days, there was not enough competition. In a month, two-three models of a skin from the same user could have been passed for a fair pay. The creator received from 1% to 1.5% of reward for each sold copy of a skin via the Steam trading tool, or from each bought case on Steam where this skin was traded.

The competition on creation of skins continued to grow. At the moment, daily hundreds of thousands of skins are created in CS:GO Workshop. Certainly, all the units undergo strict selection and get to Steam Community Market and to CS:GO cases. Now, it is possible to instantly sell skins for real money on private trading services and the websites. At the moment, there are hundreds of similar services available around the Internet.

However, there are also swindlers that earn on naive players; such kind of things always happens in any kind of industry. So if you do not want to lose your money or skins for nothing, it is better to use reputable services.